The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-07-01
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

OF the Sherman house, the largest hos
tel in the city.
At Mitchell, four prisoners escaped
from jail by saving the bars OF their
cell and OF an outside window.
Dakota pensions; J. H. Farley, Rap.
id City; increased, P. Boyden. BROOK
ings; T. ]. Mills, Sioux Falls.
The Omaha announces the compile.
ton OF the Sioux Falls line from
Salem to Mitchell, and that it is open
for passenger traffic. All trains now
running between Worthington and
Sioux Falls will be continued, and in
addition new train will leave Mitch.
ell at 7;3O p. m. for st. Paul, and
returning arrive at Mitchell at $40
q. m.
Judge Mcdonnell, at Fargo, decides
that assessors returns cannot be re-.
duced by county commissioners.
The regents at Grand Forks recelv.
ed bid from a responsible party to
put the university. of North Dakota
in as good shape as it was before the
st orm for $4, 500.
The organization OF the Southwest.
ern Telegraph company was perfected
at Yankton. Eastern capitalists are
heavily Interested. The intention of
the company is to cover Omaha as it's
southern connection with lines ex-
tending through southern and central
Dakota and western Iowa with lines
to Minneapolis,St. Paul and Duluth.
The board of members and direc-
tors of Southern Dakota university,
now in session there, have elected the
following directors: Hon. A. ]. Edger-
ton, Mitchell. chairman; e. B. Bracy,
Mitchell; Rev. A. w. Atkinson, Hur-
on; E. S. Ormsby, Emmetsburg; Rev.
William Fielder, Huron; Rev. H. ID.
Haveller, Watertown; Rev. o. HI.
Sprout, Alexandria; Rev. L. Brad.
ford, Rev. C. B. Clark, Mitch
ell. The new board on organi-
zation stands with A. J. Edgerton as
president, Rev. G. B. Clark secretary,
and R. N. Kratz treasurer.
George Gibbon, alaborer, was struck
by lightning and killed near Faulkton.
Father o. Zardetti, professor ofdog-
matte theology at St. Francis semi
nary, Wisconsin has been appointed
vicar general OF Dakota, under Bish-
op Martin Marty, with headquarters
at Yankton.
. A farmer named Hanson, living near
Frankfort, was struck by lightning
and killed.
In attempting to leap rom a box
car to the tender, A. N. PARCEL, a
Northern Pacific brakeman, aged
twenty-five, fell to the track and was
run over near SpiritWood and killed.
The train reached jamestown before
he was missed.
Another heavy rainfall descended on
Dakota on the goth, extending from
Salem on the southeast to Ludden on
the north above Columbia, and from
Pierre on the west TO Brookings on
the east.
Dakota continues to grow with
great rapidity. It has number of
excellent colleges and a good school
system employing more than 5000
teachers. This is double the number
OF teachers in New Hampshire and
New Jersey, and half as many as are
employedin Massachusetts. Thirteen
states in the Union maintain fewer
schools than Dakota. In the num-
Der OF its banks Dakota leads twenty
five states of the Union, and in many.
other ways shows that it is destined
to become one Of the greatest states
of the Union
At Ipswich, the Mortgage, Bank and
investment company has been incor-
porated with $500,O0O capital. The
stock is being taken by eastern capi.
talists.
The depot ofthe Chicago 4 North
western Railway company at Pierre,
caught fire and, with two car loads OF
freight, burned, Part OF Xoumans
Bros. & Hodpins' lumber yard was
also destroyed.
Redfeld was selected as the place OF
the next meeting Of the Dakota Medi-
cal Society which will be held the
third Thursday Of Juns, 1888. Drs.
Moody, Van Velson and Buchanan
were appointed censors for the year.
Bids for the location of the next
Southern Dakota fair we're received
from Yankton. Huron and Sioux Falls
OF 1000 each. Huron secured the
location by votes OF herself, Pierre,
De smet. Miller. Sioux Falls, 81, while